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Xu Bing's The Character of Characters and the Possibilities of Calligraphic Animation (2024)
Journal Article
Yang, P. (2024). Xu Bing's The Character of Characters and the Possibilities of Calligraphic Animation. Archives of Asian Art, 74(1), 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-11169083

This article examines contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing's (b. 1955) 2012 animation video, The Character of Characters, which remediates Zhao Mengfu's (1254–1322) calligraphy and painting. The video, in which Chinese written words become the true pr... Read More about Xu Bing's The Character of Characters and the Possibilities of Calligraphic Animation.

Photographs in Films Starring Ruan Lingyu: Considering Geometric Regions of the Motion Picture Frame (2024)
Journal Article
Yang, P. (2024). Photographs in Films Starring Ruan Lingyu: Considering Geometric Regions of the Motion Picture Frame. The journal of e-media studies, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.504

This multimodal essay utilizes the Semantic Annotation Tool (SAT), an open-source drop-in module, to create samples of time-based annotations for still photographs in Chinese films starring Ruan Lingyu. Exemplary films include Love and Duty (Lian’ai... Read More about Photographs in Films Starring Ruan Lingyu: Considering Geometric Regions of the Motion Picture Frame.

The Future Story of Chinese Calligraphy (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fleming, J., & Yang, P. (2022, July). The Future Story of Chinese Calligraphy. Poster presented at The Future Story of Chinese Calligraphy, Online

Constructing Cantonese-ness(es): Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s (2022)
Thesis
Wong, Y. H. Constructing Cantonese-ness(es): Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis defines and deconstructs what the author calls the “Chao Shao-an Phenomenon”, and analyses how Chao’s paintings have been disseminated and represented by himself and his followers in different regions in the Asia-Pacific since the mid-20t... Read More about Constructing Cantonese-ness(es): Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s.

Fan Xuepeng (2017)
Book Chapter
Yang, P. (2017). Fan Xuepeng. In J. Gaines, R. Vatsal, & M. Dall’Asta (Eds.), Women Film Pioneers Project. Columbia University Libraries. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-6ny0-av44

Fan Xuepeng was a luminous Chinese film star through the silent era and into the sound era. She was perhaps most famous for her performance as knightly female characters in martial arts films from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. Later she became a... Read More about Fan Xuepeng.

Rotoscoping Body: Secret Dancers, Animated Realism and Temporal Critique (2016)
Journal Article
Yang, P. (2016). Rotoscoping Body: Secret Dancers, Animated Realism and Temporal Critique. Spectator (Los Angeles, Calif.), 36(1), 33-42

In the Fleischer original rotoscoping process, the animator was drawing on a transparent easel, onto which the movie projector was throwing an image of a live-action film frame. This technology improved the smoothness of character movement, most nota... Read More about Rotoscoping Body: Secret Dancers, Animated Realism and Temporal Critique.